Patrick Lor serves as Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. Lor also serves as Partner at 500 Startups Canada. He helped pioneer the microstock industry, as co-founder of iStockphoto, the world's first crowd sourced stock photography community. Upon his departure, the company was selling over 12 million images annually, and was sold to Getty Images for US$50 million in 2006. Most recently, he was head of North American operations for Fotolia, a stock photography community backed by private equity firm KKR. Patrick is also active in the technology startup ecosystem as an advisor, mentor, angel investor, teacher, and community leader. Organizations he contributes to include: thea100.org, thec100.org, democampcalgary.com, University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Highline, and FounderFuel. He also served as Advisor at iNovia Capital.
I'm passionate about all things Blockchain, Crypto, and Space and currently leading early-stage investing at Wave Financial where I'm responsible for the day-to-day management of cFund and Wave Genesis. Contrarian at heart. DM me at @DavidMRoebuck if you're a visionary building on the blockchain.
Not Interested In
I don't invest in anything outside of Blockchain and Space.
Infrastructural solutions that allow regulated industries (like healthcare) to scale faster. Companies will have a monetizable "application" but the core value of the company is in the infrastructure they're building that will allow them to do audacious things long term.
Co-founder of 8-Bit Capital, Founders Den, Nuzzel, and Friendster
Most Interested In
8-Bit Capital invests in startups that connect people and businesses in new ways
Jonathan Abrams is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Nuzzel. He serves as Advisor at Darwin Ventures. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder & serves as a Managing Partner at Founders Den. Previously, Jonathan was the founder and CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks, and a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is a mentor in Steve Blank's entrepreneurship classes at Stanford and Berkeley, a top-rated mentor at The Founder Institute, an advisor to AngelList and LeanLaunchLab, and has been extensively involved in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for over ten years, including as a long-time member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, moderator of the SVASE CTO Forum, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge, the Intel Challenge, and Start-Up Chile. He has a BS in Computer Science from McMaster University. He is an Angel Investor.
Scott N.
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Transatomic Power Corporation:
$2500000 (Seed Round)
• Nucleus:
$5600000 (Early stage VC)
• Brave:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Cabin:
$3300000 (Seed Round)
• Real Savvy:
$2710000 (Early stage VC)
• Grabr:
$2700000 (Seed Round)
• Shipamax:
$2500000 (Seed Round)
• BrandYourself:
$2000000 (Early stage VC)
• Mira:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Unbound:
(Seed Round)
• Impulse Space:
$45000000 (Series A)
• Impulse Space:
$30000000 (Seed)
• Siren Biotechnology:
(Seed)
• Radiant:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Freeform:
$45000000 (Series Unknown)
• ISEE:
$40000000 (Series B)
• 9am.health:
$16000000 (Series A)
• 9am.health:
$4000000 (Seed)
• HeartLab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Zenith Aerospace:
$6000000 (Series Unknown)
• Collective Health:
$280000000 (Series F)
• Collective Health:
$210000000 (Series E)
• Collective Health:
$110000000 (Series D)
• Collective Health:
$81000000 (Series C)
• Collective Health:
$32000000 (Series B)
• Collective Health:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Charma:
$3000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• Indee Labs:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Nubank:
$150000000 (Series E)
• Tachyus:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Tachyus:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Tachyus:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Branch:
$35000000 (Series B)
• 8i:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Kami:
(Seed)
• Transatomic Power:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Transatomic Power:
$2000000 (Seed)
Scott N.
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Investing in technology companies with terminal solutions to important, unsolved problems. Previously, founder or early team member at engineering-driven startups.
Michael Schatzberg
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Experienced executive leading technology and business strategy teams.
- Expertise in guiding new ventures from idea to funding in both large corporate and startup settings
- Deep diligence experience on over seventy M&A actions
- Angel and early stage investor. Corporate venture investor
- Mentor to accelerators and many start up companies
- Executive coach with extensive experience building and leading creative, execution oriented teams
Experience: Technology Partnerships, Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development, Partner Ecosystems, Evangelism, Incubation, Software Development : systems and research; Venture & Seed Investing : advising, mentoring and coaching start up companies, Network, Software & Server architectures; Team Development : creation, restructuring and talent acquisition; Negotiating & Governance of partnerships; Go To Market strategies for innovative technologies; Strategic investing and portfolio management as well as innovation and creativity management.
Victor Young
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Drive Motors:
$1500000
• DocSend:
(early stage)
• Hyperloop One:
(early stage)
• NextGen Venture Partners:
(mid stage)
• Take 44:
(early stage)
• BOXC:
(early stage)
• Genome Compiler Corp.:
(mid stage)
• Pingpad:
(early stage)
• Techstars:
(late stage)
• Flinja:
(early stage)
• ONtheGO Platforms (Acq. by Atheer):
(early stage)
Victor Young is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Flinja. He is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product Officer at Take 44.
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